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The Collection of John H. Garzoli
Lot 59

Gutzon Borglum
(1867-1941)
John Ruskin 15in high

19 November 2018, 18:00 PST
Los Angeles

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Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941)

John Ruskin
signed and dated 'Gutzon Borglum 1903' with foundry stamp 'GORHAM CO.' (on the base)
bronze with green and dark brown patina
15in high
Executed in 1903

Footnotes

Provenance
Estate of Samuel Holt, San Francisco, California.
Sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet & Co., Los Angeles, Fine Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European and American Paintings, March 13, 1979.

Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1904 (another cast).
St. Louis, Missouri, The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, April 30 - December 1, 1904 (another cast).
Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1905 (another cast).
New York, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The 75th Anniversary of Paintings & Sculptures by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students League of New York, March 16 - April 29, 1951 (another cast).
Stanford, Cantor Arts Center, Rodin and America, Influence and Adaptation, 1876 – 1936, 2011 (another cast).

Literature
The Art Students League of New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students League of New York [exh. cat.], New York, The League, 1951 (another cast illustrated).
Willadene Price, Gutzon Borglum: Artist and Patriot, Chicago, 1972, pp. 61-63 (another cast).
Lucy D. Rosenfeld, A Century of American Sculpture, The Roman Bronze Works Foundry, Atglen, Schiffer Publications, 2002, p. 42 (another cast illustrated).

Between 1893 and 1895, Borglum traveled to England and took up residence in London until his return to the United States in 1902. It was during this period that he had the occasion to meet the aging John Ruskin (1819-1900) and described him as "the most marvelous, magnificent, unappreciated genius the world has ever known." 1

1 Albert TenEyck Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965, p. 102 (another cast illustrated).

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